Steve Walter's spoonbill post got me thinking.
Occasionally, when I'm bored at work, I'll turn on the live East Hampton Beach Cam just to see what I can see. Surf, weather, birds, etc. I've been able to identify things like Barn Swallow, Sanderling, even LBB Gull. Would these count for Suffolk? With binoculars, light is bent through the lens arrangement to focus on your retinas. With the webcam, light is focused onto a CMOS chip, converted to zeros and ones, beamed to a satellite, beamed back to my computer, and then focused on my retinas. Same thing, right? The time difference between the two is negligible. I know, I know, it's not the same. But it is "live" in the sense of time, and very real. (Not like that great Tom Brady video this week of him playing catch with a football passing machine). What if I happen to see a Yellow-nosed Albatross cruise across my monitor one day? Can I count it and, better yet, should I even report it... The problems of the modern age. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
